Well after having recently spent just over £92 on the powerspark electronic conversion kit, new coil, cap, ht leads and spark plugs, and another £22 on an intermotor coil thinking the new Lucas branded one was duff (it must have cooled down in-between swapping the coils over on the drive the other day) I’ve finally sorted/found the issue with the misfiring under any load while driving.
As I attended a local car meet yesterday evening. Upon setting off there was a very slight misfire (you wouldn’t really notice it) during normal cursing, and a lack of performance that I can only describe as trying to drive with the handbrake half on, but not. That then changed to misfiring under any load once fully warmed up along with a rough idle and wanting to cut out. I just about made it to the show and upon popping the bonnet the coil was stone cold.
Luckily I’d thought ahead and packed just about all the ignition/dizzy related bits in the boot, so whipped the front grill off and set about swapping out the electronic ignition and baseplate swapping back to the other base plate with the points already fitted. With a slight tweak of the timing (I had marks for both) I had it running again.
The drive back it was so much nicer, improved performance (was actually willing to rev past 3k) no more misfiring, It even started up easier than it had been earlier today when I want to move it briefly.
So the one part that was supposed to ‘improve’ staring, performance and reliably, does work, it will start and run, just with reduced performance (losing performance when you only had a maximum of 40bhp when new isn’t ideal) and like crap once warm.
